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Dan Portik
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Bioinformatics scientist at PacBio. I work on metagenomics, methylation, and oncology, but also enjoy phylogenomics and frog/lizard evolution. 🦠 🐸 🦎 🧬 Free time: climbing 🧗, curling 🥌, and growing plants 🪴🌵.
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If you study an endangered vertebrate species and plan on sequencing their #genome#PacBio#herpetology#reptiles#amphibiansprograms.pacb.com/l/1652/2024-...

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Lightweight taxonomic profiling of long-read metagenomic datasets with Lemur (https://github.com/treangenlab/lemurhttps://github.com/treangenlab/magnethttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.01.596961v2 🧬🖥️

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This 2020 paper on the cancer microbiome from Rob Knight's group has been retracted: www.nature.com/articles/s41...x.com/matthewherpe..., the authors agreed to the retraction, glad to hear they did so! There's still a *lot* of interesting stuff to grapple with here largely left unsaid 1/n

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Microbiome analyses of blood and tissues suggest cancer diagnostic approach - Nature
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Microbiome analyses of blood and tissues suggest cancer diagnostic approach - Nature

Microbial nucleic acids are detected in samples of tissues and blood from more than 10,000 patients with cancer, and machine learning is used to show that these can be used to discriminate between and...

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Dan Portik
@dportik.bsky.social
Bioinformatics scientist at PacBio. I work on metagenomics, methylation, and oncology, but also enjoy phylogenomics and frog/lizard evolution. 🦠 🐸 🦎 🧬 Free time: climbing 🧗, curling 🥌, and growing plants 🪴🌵.
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